Psychiatric Emergency Nurse

1 month ago

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Vancouver Coastal Health Full time
Job Summary

Vancouver Coastal Health is seeking a Registered Nurse or Registered Psychiatric Nurse to join the Psychiatric Emergency Assessment and Treatment (PEAT) team at Lions Gate Hospital.

Key Responsibilities
  • Assess, plan, implement, and evaluate nursing care for patients and families across their lifespan in the Psychiatric Emergency Assessment and Treatment (PEAT) Unit.
  • Provide urgent, direct care to patients presenting in the emergency department.
  • Perform comprehensive physical, mental health, and substance use assessments, crisis interventions, stabilization, and care planning.
  • Provide culturally safe, trauma-informed, patient- and family-centered care while applying medical management and/or self-care management principles, including harm reduction.
  • Act as a resource for the interdisciplinary team by providing information based on nursing theory and practice related to patient care needs.
  • Provide liaison support for patient care and patient flow between the PEAT program, Emergency Department, Mental Health Inpatient Unit, first responders, community health care providers, and community partners/agencies.
  • Provide direct care to mental health and/or substance use patients awaiting transfer for further assessment or inpatient admission.
  • Initiate and participate in case conferences and case management meetings; prepare and maintain patient records; and provide consultative and direct services/care to patients, families, community health professionals/agencies, law enforcement, physicians, and emergency room staff.
  • Participate in team meetings, continuing education, conferences, and/or corporate initiatives and engage in ongoing team planning, development, evaluation, and quality improvement activities.
Qualifications
  • Current practicing registration as a Registered Nurse or Registered Psychiatric Nurse with the BC College of Nurses and Midwives (BCCNM).
  • Two (2) years' recent related mental health and substance use experience, including experience with patients in emergency, urgent care, and/or medical/surgical areas, or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
  • Demonstrated ability to provide comprehensive head-to-toe nursing assessments and interventions related to common diagnoses and specific clinical situations relevant to the designated patient group.
  • Demonstrated ability to perform focused secondary assessments and integrate information from a variety of sources, including diagnostics, and develop a plan of care relevant to the designated patient group.
  • Demonstrated ability to anticipate and respond to potential complications and care issues relevant to the designated patient group.
  • Demonstrated ability in correct usage of equipment and maintains competency in working with Negative Pressure Wound Therapy (NPWT), oxygen delivery equipment, other care-related pumps, catheters, tubes, suctions for the designated patient population.
  • Demonstrated skill in the management of patients with altered immune response, acute/chronic pain management, anticoagulation therapy, patients with problematic substance use/withdrawal challenges.
  • Demonstrated skill in Peripheral IV insertion, maintenance, blood collection, removal, and Tracheostomy care.
  • Knowledge of the principles and practices of recovery-oriented conceptual models of mental health care, including person- and family-centered care, trauma-informed care, harm reduction, and psychosocial rehabilitation.
  • Knowledge of the Mental Health Act as it applies to the rights and obligations of patients and staff.
  • Ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing.
  • Demonstrated knowledge of the impact of social, cultural, and family systems on health outcomes.
  • Demonstrated ability to plan and implement care plans and anticipate and respond to potential complications and care issues relevant to the designated patient group.
  • Demonstrated ability to participate in the development and delivery of educational programs and materials for patients and families based on education theories, principles, and best practices.
  • Demonstrated ability to identify emotional, social, or environmental barriers and intervene to eliminate stigma.
  • Demonstrated ability to effectively manage conflict situations and aggressive behavior and use non-violent crisis intervention and behavioral management techniques.
  • Demonstrated ability to model and mentor new staff and students.
  • Demonstrated skill in performing autonomous scope of practice and standards of care relevant to the designated patient population.
  • Demonstrated skill in clinical techniques and the use of applicable equipment and supplies.
  • Ability to operate related equipment, including applicable software applications.
  • Physical ability to perform the duties of the position.

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